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Homepage:http://www.stanford.edu/~bernheim/
Phone:650-725-8732
Postal address:Department of Economics Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6072
Workplace:Department of Economics, Stanford University, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2026

  1. When Are Decisions Improvable? An Evaluation of Diagnostic Methods
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads

2025

  1. Interventionist Preferences and the Welfare State: The Case of In-Kind Aid
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
    Also in ECON - Working Papers, Department of Economics - University of Zurich (2025) Downloads
  2. Strategic Complexity Promotes Egalitarianism in Legislative Bargaining
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads

2024

  1. Do People Report Happiness Accurately?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (3)
  2. Social preferences over ordinal outcomes
    ECON - Working Papers, Department of Economics - University of Zurich Downloads View citations (5)
  3. Welfare and the Act of Choosing
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (1)

2022

  1. Who Controls the Agenda Controls the Polity
    Papers, arXiv.org Downloads

2021

  1. Causal Inference from Hypothetical Evaluations
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (4)
  2. Interpreting the Will of the People - A Positive Analysis of Ordinal Preference Aggregation
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Downloads View citations (7)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2021) Downloads View citations (7)

2020

  1. Optimal Default Options
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (2)

2019

  1. Projective Paternalism
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Downloads View citations (3)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019) Downloads View citations (3)

2018

  1. Behavioral Public Economics
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (96)
  2. Peer Advice on Financial Decisions: A case of the blind leading the blind?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (11)
    See also Journal Article Peer Advice on Financial Decisions: A Case of the Blind Leading the Blind?, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2025) Downloads (2025)
  3. When Fair Isn't Fair: Understanding Choice Reversals Involving Social Preferences
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (14)
    See also Journal Article When Fair Isn’t Fair: Understanding Choice Reversals Involving Social Preferences, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (2020) Downloads View citations (14) (2020)

2015

  1. Understanding Conformity: An Experimental Investigation
    Harvard Business School Working Papers, Harvard Business School Downloads View citations (22)

2014

  1. Evaluating Deliberative Competence: A Simple Method with an Application to Financial Choice
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Evaluating Deliberative Competence: A Simple Method with an Application to Financial Choice, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2022) Downloads View citations (7) (2022)
  2. Poverty and Self Control
    2014 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics Downloads View citations (1)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013) Downloads View citations (22)

    See also Journal Article Poverty and Self‐Control, Econometrica, Econometric Society (2015) Downloads View citations (73) (2015)
  3. Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2019) Downloads View citations (14) (2019)
  4. Price Cutting and Business Stealing in Imperfect Cartels
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Price Cutting and Business Stealing in Imperfect Cartels, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2017) Downloads View citations (11) (2017)

2013

  1. Neural Activity Reveals Preferences Without Choices
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Neural Activity Reveals Preferences without Choices, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association (2014) Downloads View citations (29) (2014)
  2. Non-Choice Evaluations Predict Behavioral Responses to Changes in Economic Conditions
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (5)

2012

  1. Do Consumers Exploit Precommitment Opportunities? Evidence from Natural Experiments Involving Liquor Consumption
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (7)

2011

  1. The Welfare Economics of Default Options in 401(k) Plans
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article The Welfare Economics of Default Options in 401(k) Plans, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2015) Downloads View citations (65) (2015)

2010

  1. Candidates, Character, and Corruption
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads
    See also Journal Article Candidates, Character, and Corruption, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association (2014) Downloads View citations (18) (2014)
  2. Of Candidates and Character
    Economics Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science Downloads
  3. Rationalizable Strategic Behavior
    Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine Downloads View citations (41)
    Also in Levine's Working Paper Archive, David K. Levine (2010) Downloads View citations (41)

    See also Journal Article Rationalizable Strategic Behavior, Econometrica, Econometric Society (1984) Downloads View citations (593) (1984)

2008

  1. Behavioral Welfare Economics
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (39)
    See also Journal Article Behavioral Welfare Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press (2009) Downloads View citations (389) (2009)
  2. Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (92)
    Also in Discussion Papers, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (2007) Downloads View citations (11)

    See also Journal Article Beyond Revealed Preference: Choice-Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2009) Downloads View citations (422) (2009)
  3. Do Real Estate Brokers Add Value When Listing Services Are Unbundled?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Downloads View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article